HELP QUICK! I GOT 5 MORE MINS The Federalist Papers was a collection of essays written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton in 1788. The essays urged the ratification of the United States Constitution, which had been debated and drafted at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Imagine you were writing one of these essays: what would you have written to convince the citizens of the United States to ratify (pass or put into effect) the new Constitution?